“Controversial plan to bring back police ‘sus’ stop-and-search laws targeting black and Asian people axed by Theresa May.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A plant nursery has has been fined £10,000 after polluting five miles of a stream in Norfolk.”
BBC News, 18th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teenage girl who vandalised a city’s cenotaph has been told her actions were ‘despicable’.”
BBC News, 18th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Governments should be forced to report on the impact of laws which affect citizens’ privacy after they have come into force, telling Parliament whether those laws have worked and what privacy rights have been infringed, the UK’s privacy watchdog has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th November 2010
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“A company is responsible for ‘making available’ internet-hosted material in the country where its host server is based, not in the country where the material is read or used, the High Court has said.”
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OUT-LAW.com, 18th November 2010
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“The coalition government has scrapped plans to reform controversial employment regulations in an apparent U-turn by the Conservatives, it has emerged.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 18th November 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“New proposals laid in parliament today will save an estimated 800,000 hours of police time each year.”
Home Office, 17th November 2010
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Four men have been jailed after counterfeit bank notes worth more than £1m were uncovered by police.”
BBC news, 17th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who murdered a policewoman during a bungled robbery has started an appeal against his conviction on the eve of the fifth anniversary of her death.”
BBC News, 17th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man was jailed for life today for the murder of his girlfriend’s toddler, whom he viciously attacked after her crying interrupted him playing on his Xbox computer game.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A lorry driver who crushed a cyclist while chatting on his mobile phone with ‘the most godawful hangover’ was today jailed for seven years and disqualified from driving for life.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Discount retailer Poundworld has been fined £5,000 for selling dangerously faulty digital thermometers and other medical items, it was announced today.”
The Independent, 18th November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A senior judge has raised concerns over fingerprint evidence used in criminal trials, warning that it rests on ‘assumptions’ that have never been scientifically proven.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th November 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Wiltshire policeman convicted of assaulting a woman in custody has been cleared on appeal.”
BBC News, 18th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Making criminal justice statistics more transparent and user friendly is the aim of a consultation launched today (17 November).”
Ministry of Justice, 17th November 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A group of residents from east London are taking a council to court over a decision to allow 50% more flights a year from London City Airport.”
BBC News, 18th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Mediation ‘cannot be a substitute for justice’, the master of the rolls warned this week, in a view that appears sharply at odds with government proposals to replace many legal aid-funded cases with alternative dispute resolution.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 18th November 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Three High Court judges considering former Labour MP Phil Woolas’s bid to overturn his ban from politics have reserved judgement.”
BBC News, 17th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The private investigator at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal has been ordered by a high court judge to reveal who instructed him to engage in the illegal interception of voicemail messages of public figures.”
The Guardian, 17th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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